Bichet, Claude Francois - Nat.



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  • Title Bichet, Claude Francois - Nat. 
    Short Title Naturalization Record for Claude Francois Bichet 
    Author P. Bouchard, Clerk 
    Publisher Filed December 3, 1833, Jefferson County, Court of Common Pleas 
    Repository Benjamin J. Cobb, Records Management Coordinator 
    DATE 22 Nov 2004 
    MEDI Court 
    _PAREN
    Source ID S76 
    Text State of New York
    Jefferson County

    Be it remembered that on this third day of December in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty three at a Court of Common Pleas holden in & for the County of Jefferson aforesaid Francis Bisha personally appeared in open court & being duly sworn doth depose & say & declare that he is the age of fifty years that he was born in Vesoul a town in the Department of Upper Saone France and that he owes allegiance to the King of France.
    That he emigrated to the United States and settled in the State of New York in the County of Jefferson aforesaid on or about the first day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight and that he now resides and is intending to reside in the United States.
    And the said Francis Bisha doth further depose & declare that it is bonafide and absolutely his intention to become a citizen of the United State and to renounce forever all allegiance & fidelity to any foreign prince potentate state or soverigenty whatever and particularly to the King of France
    X and this deponent further saith not.

    Francois Bichet

    Sworn & subscribed in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty three
    before me in open Court

    [opposite side]

    State of New York
    Jefferson County

    John B. Bo_______? and Louis Rolfe? of the County aforesaid being sworn in open Court do depose each for himself and says that he has been acquainted with Claude Francis Bichet for more than five years that said Bichet has resided within the United States at least five years and within the said state at least one year, that he has behaved as a man of good character and attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States and disposed to the good order & happiness of the same.
    J. B. Bo______?
    Louis Rolfe?
    Sworn in open Court
    this 3 day of December 1833

    P. Bouchard, Clerk

    State of New York
    Jefferson County

    I Claude Francis Bichet do swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and that I do for ever renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign power, prince or sovereignty whatever particularly all allegiance and fidelity to the King of France to whom I owed allegiance.
    Sworn and subscribed in open Court Dec. 3 1833 Francois Biche
    P. Bouchard, Clerk

    Filed Dec. 3, 1833 
    Linked to Claude Francois Bichet 

  • Photos
    Naturalization paper for Francois Bichet pg1.
    Naturalization paper for Francois Bichet pg1.
    Naturalization paper for Francois Bichet pg2
    Naturalization paper for Francois Bichet pg2